Sowing The Wind Reaping The Whirlwind Hosea 8

Introduction

Spring is coming and that means anybody with a garden anxious to get started planting

Whether vegetables, fruit or flowers, the pix what U want, seed what U start w

The type of seed determines the product you will get, also seed little fruit big

Hosea uses sowing and reaping imagery to make spiritual points about Israel

Observation

Every language has styles of writing. One style of Hebrew writing called chiastic …

Hosea 8 is a back and forth description of what Israel did and what happened

But v7, in the middle is the focal point of the chapter. 1-6 focus to 7, 8-14 go from

So the chapter is about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind

V7 wind is רוחruach, trnsltdbrth, spiritGn12, wind, hr idea of sml wisp of air- a smlbrth

Whirlwind סופחsupha - a big storm, judgment of God Ps83:15; Job 37:9

  1. Sowing The Wind – Reaping The Whirlwind

Hosea 8:1a thtrumpt 2ur mouth – he shal com lik an eagle against thhous of th Lord

Trumpets or horns announce something – this is a warning, the Lord annce 2Isrl

SowingThe Wind[Isrl sees as sml]Reaping the Whirlwind[rslt L sees as big]

1b transgress My[notice] covenant2 Israel will cry to Me – empty profssnskno

Rebelled against My Law

3a rejected the good3b the enemy will pursue them

4a set up kings4b cut off

Make idols5 calf rejected, My anger aroused

6 calf of Samaria broken to pieces

7a sow the wind7b reap the whirlwind

Stalk w no bud, never produce

8If prduc, swllwd up, amng Gentiles

9 go to Assyria, wild donkey by slf10 I will gather them, sorrow a little

Hired lovers

11a made many altars for sin [rlgn]11b become altars for sinning

12a great things of the law written for12b consider a strange thing - ignorant

13a they sacrifice and eat13b Lord not accept

Lord remember their iniquity

Punish their sin

14a forgotten their Maker71414b Lord send fire on cities

Build temples-substitutes, bignessdevour his palaces

Multiply fortified cities

  1. Application
  1. U.S. - Focus on a few things Israel did that we may be doing the same

V3 rejecting the good Jer6:16, Is5:20 - marriage one man and one woman

V6 worshipping the work of our hands – build our Babel’s to reach God

Materialism, secularism

V12 considering the great things of God’s law a strange thing Ps 19 –

The Bible is out of date, irrelevant, has errors,

V14 forgetting God as our MakerPs 139:23,24– darwinianismevolution our maker, church today bigger, bigger, bigger

  1. Individuals – Gal 6:7,8 what a man sows he reaps. We reap th true fruit of what we sow, correlation what U do &what hppns

Sow good things – lifestyle of obedience to God’s word, walk with God

We know but do not always do this

Worship of God in spirit/truth not $, home, car, job, fam, ntwht say but do

Remember God, God is big

Treat God’s word with great respect and obedience

Serving the Lord with gladness and joyfulness in your heart

Ask God for help in choosing nations leaders

Sowing The Wind Reaping The Whirlwind Hosea 8

Introduction

Spring is coming and that means anybody with a garden anxious to get started planting

Plant watermelon seed – get watermelon plants and hopefully watermelons

Plant corn seed – get corn

The type of seed determines the product you will get, also seed little fruit big

Hosea uses sowing and reaping imagery to make spiritual points about Israel

Observation

Every language has styles of writing. One style of Hebrew writing called chiastic …

Hosea 8 is a back and forth description of what Israel did and what happened

But v7, in the middle is the focal point of the chapter. 1-6 focus to 7, 8-14 go from

So the chapter is about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind

V7 wind is רוחruach, trnsltdbrth, spiritGn12, wind, hr idea of sml wisp of air- a smlbrth

Whirlwind סופחsupha - a big storm, judgment of God Ps83:15; Job 37:9

  1. Sowing The Wind – The ‘Seed’ Israel Planted
  1. They have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law 1b
  2. Israel has rejected the good 3a
  3. Set up kings but not by Me 4a
  4. Made idols for themselves 4b, 6a
  5. Go to Assyria, hired lovers 9, 10a
  6. Made many altars for sin, altars for sinning 11
  7. Considered the great things of God’s law strange 12
  8. Sacrifices 13a
  9. Forgotten their Maker, built temples, multiplied fortified cities 14a
  1. Reaping The Whirlwind – The ‘Fruit’ That Came Up
  1. He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord1a
  2. Israel will cry 2 the enemy will pursue Him 3b
  3. Cut off 4b
  4. Lord rejected their sacrifices, anger aroused against 5
  5. Samaria [either idols or nation] broken to pieces 6b
  6. Stalk w no bud, never produce, aliens swallow it up 7b
  7. Israel will be swallowed up, be among the Gentiles, like a vessel w no pleasure 8
  8. Lord gather them and they sorrow a little 10b
  9. Lord not accept sacrifices, remembers their sin and punishes them 13
  10. They return to Egypt 13c
  11. Send fire on cities and devour their palaces 14b

Israel did ntgtwht they thot. They got worse, they got a whirlwind – destructive wind

  1. Application
  2. Our Nation

Just look at a few things Israel did that we may be doing the same

V3 rejecting the good Jer 6:16

V6 worshipping the work of our hands

V12 considering the great things of God’s law a strange thing Ps 19

V14 forgetting God as our Maker

  1. Christians

Ga 6:7,8 what a man sows he reaps. The true fruit of what we sow